Sources: Apple is planning to expand its financial services by adding payment processing, lending risk assessment, credit checks, fraud analysis, and more — Apple Inc. is developing its own payment processing technology and infrastructure for future financial products …
Google says its BERT language model has helped cut explicit Search results by 30% in the past year for terms related to ethnicity, sexual preference, and gender — When U.S. actress Natalie Morales carried out a Google search for “Latina teen” in 2019, she described in a tweet that all she encountered was pornography.
Pinecone, which offers a serverless vector database designed specifically for the needs of data scientists, raises a $28M Series A led by Menlo Ventures — When Pinecone launched last year, the company's message was around building a serverless vector database designed specifically for the needs of data scientists.
Verizon blames “bad actors” and engages US law enforcement after its customers and users of its MVNO Visible receive spam texts from their own phone numbers — The carrier says it's working with US law enforcement to find those responsible — Yesterday, I wrote about receiving …
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on integrating hardware and software, the company's full-stack approach, ML opportunities, attempting to buy Arm, and more — It took a few moments to realize what was striking about the opening video for Nvidia's GTC conference: the complete absence of humans.
Kuo: camera bump on the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max smartphones will increase about five percent in each dimension due to a larger 48MP sensor — The increased size of the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max's rear camera array is due to all-new 48-megapixel Wide camera systems, according to reputable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
An analysis of 19.3M NFTs across ~8,400 collections: one in three have little or no trading activity, and another third trade below their original minting cost — For every Bored Ape and CryptoPunk there is a Baby Baller, one of the thousands of NFT projects that have faltered not long after celebrated debuts.
Sources: health startups Cerebral and Done pressured clinicians to use looser pandemic rules and prescribe stimulants, often via 30 minute online consultations — Digital companies such as Cerebral and Done seized on looser pandemic rules for prescribing ADHD drugs like Adderall.
Google releases a Chrome update for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix a high-severity zero-day exploited in the wild, the second such patch for Chrome in 2022 — Google has released Chrome 99.0.4844.84 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users to address a high-severity zero-day bug exploited in the wild.
Sources: Exxon is running a pilot to use excess natural gas from North Dakota oil wells to power crypto mining and is considering expanding the test globally — Exxon Mobil Corp. is running a pilot program using excess natural gas that would otherwise be burned off from North Dakota oil wells …
Indian parliament approves a 30% capital gains tax on crypto transactions, in effect starting April 1 — Amendments sought by the crypto industry were not accommodated, and the policies will go into effect on April 1. — Indians will begin paying a capital gains tax of 30% on crypto transactions …
After suspending its paid subscription service in Russia earlier this month, Spotify now says it will fully suspend its service in the country — Spotify, which suspended its paid subscription service in Russia earlier this month due to that country's unprovoked and bloody invasion of Ukraine …
Automated accounting software startup Digits raises a $65M Series C at a $565M valuation led by SoftBank's Vision Fund, bringing its total funding to $97.5M — Digits, the startup that is building a new take on accounting software through an approach that it describes as building a …
Apple is planning to launch a subscription service by 2023 for the iPhone and other hardware that could tie into Apple One bundles and AppleCare — Apple Inc. is working on a subscription service for the iPhone and other hardware products, a move that could make device ownership similar …
YouTube is making nearly 4,000 TV episodes available for free with ads in the US — The platform already offers free movies with ads — YouTube is the latest company to offer free shows TV with ads. The video giant says you'll now be able to stream nearly 4,000 episodes of TV for free …
Microsoft expands its cybersecurity jobs initiative beyond the US to 23 new countries, including Australia and India, to help fill 3.5M jobs globally by 2025 — Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will expand its cybersecurity skilling initiative to 23 additional countries.
Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan is departing at the end of March after three years, to spend more time with his family; COO Sean Leow will serve as interim CEO — Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan will be departing the Brooklyn-based crowdfunding company at the end of March, the company announced Tuesday.
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg : Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of...
